Sutro's Baths, San Francisco, Calif. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Sutro's Baths, San Francisco, Calif., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sutro's Baths, San Francisco, Calif.
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The Sutro Baths sat on the rocky Pacific shoreline at Lands End, on the northwestern edge of San Francisco, where businessman and later mayor Adolph Sutro built a huge glass-roofed bathhouse that opened in 1896. Its several saltwater pools, some fed by seawater and heated, could hold thousands of swimmers at once, and the complex drew visitors from across the city. This stereograph card, published in Philadelphia around 1899 by C.H. Graves, was meant to be seen through a stereoscope, which gave viewers of the period a three-dimensional sense of the place. Stereographs like this one were a popular way for people far from California to see its landmarks.
| Created / published | Phila., U.S.A. : C.H. Graves, publisher, c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | No. 3734. |
| Subjects | Swimming pools--California--San Francisco--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 729 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-163860 |
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